Example sentences of "to [pron] [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I 've been and spoken to them again this morning and yesterday , R S C left it there not O S D although it 's O S D's van , so they should 've come out to move it on Friday and the mechanics did n't turn up , then they lost the keys , cos yesterday myself and who was it , Lyn , waited up for the keys cos they were gon na move down put it into a safer spot . |
| 2 | He moved to them early this year . |
| 3 | Such outbursts by Dr Jenkins seems to me yet another example of preaching socialism while thriving on the rewards of the capitalist system of government . |
| 4 | People often say to me how much time have I got in which I can complain about faulty goods ? |
| 5 | I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month . |
| 6 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
| 7 | Some of the boys have been close to their best this afternoon . |
| 8 | This work has involved the laying of a ‘ spine ’ of fibre cable across the campus — to which ultimately all faculty and school computer networks will connect — and the installation of satellite networks in all the Schools of the Engineering Faculty together with the provision of hardware bridges to allow their linkage to the main ‘ spine ’ . |
| 9 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 10 | ‘ I was going to propose to you properly that weekend , ’ he went on after a long , blissful interval . |
| 11 | If if you as a panel conclude that the information erm is inadequate , clearly er on that basis then then a suggestion would have to be made as to one how this matter can be progressed . |
| 12 | She turned down Tracey 's offer of another drink , and agreed to speak to him again that evening . |
| 13 | As a matter of fact , I was talking to him briefly this afternoon and we agreed we 'd have a chat some time . |
| 14 | It occurred to him then that Dolly might be under greater threat than he was because she could describe Blackbeard more accurately . |
| 15 | He suggested that North Korea should surrender to him personally any time it was ready . |
| 16 | Madame imagined that while she was doing this to Boy she would tell him everything she knew , she would talk to him quietly each night whilst brushing his hair before bedtime . |
| 17 | Every instant of her time from when she got back from work till it was time for Emily to be tucked up in bed was devoted exclusively to her precious little daughter . |
| 18 | This seemed to her so much humbug . |
| 19 | Alternatively nip down to the beach , or stroll down to the centre of Puerto del Carmen where the nightlife buzzes , and the cafés and bars stay open until the small hours before returning to your very own home from home apartment , complete with facilities , terrace and garden . |
| 20 | They 'll be reporting back to us later this week on how they coped without a car and with their views on how public transport filled the gap — or not , in ’ The Road Ahead ’ . |
| 21 | It seems to us natural that love should be the commonest theme of serious imaginative literature : but a glance at classical antiquity or at the Dark Ages at once shows us that what we took for " nature " is really a special state of affairs , which will probably have an end , and which certainly had a beginning … |
| 22 | She writes a letter to us just this morning — she is ill , she can not sing tonight ! ’ |